Picking up right where issue #18 left off, this book starts with a five-page brawl between Guy and Lobo outside of the JLI’s New York embassy. The debris finally settles when Booster traps Guy in a force-field bubble, at which point Lobo begins to ingratiate himself with the rest of the League, figuring he can sit tight on killing the space-faring members until they return home and walk right into his gun sights.

The better part of the second half of the book is dedicated to the League’s new membership drive, in which individual members cold call other heroes, most of whom aren’t home or aren’t interested in joining.

At the end of the day, this issue’s pretty talky, and not much happens in it. (Although Green Flame and Ice Maiden officially change their names to Fire and Ice, respectively, and it's finally settled, once and for all, within the pages of the story proper that Black Canary is out of the League.) However, it sets up what will hopefully be some high-stakes shenanigans on Apokolips, and Maguire’s art (now with Joe Rubinstein’s inks) is in top form.

The Not-So-Secret Origin of Jon D. Witmer and The Danger Digest!

A child of the Midwest, Jon--who notably eschews the letter ‘h’ in both his first and last names--was born and raised just outside of Cleveland, Ohio. After acquiring from a friend, through dubious means, a copy of The Flash #350, young Jon became a voracious comic-book reader. With a degree in film studies from The Ohio State University, Jon today resides in Los Angeles, California, where by day he serves as the associate editor of American Cinematographer magazine, and by night he dives deep into the turbulent waters of The Danger Digest…